Year in Japan

1154 in Japanese History

3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heian period (平安時代, 794 – 1185).

Era name: Kyūju 久寿 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Kyūju 久寿 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from October 1154 to April 1156
Minamoto no Yoshinaka 源義仲 · Samurai — 12th century samurai
Ashikaga Yoshikane 足利義兼 · Samurai — samurai

Reading the year 1154 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1154 corresponds to Kyūju 久寿 (year 1 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".

The year itself is read 1154年 (1154ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 12th century for its neighbours.